Local Arts

Things go quite wrong quite quickly in the new children’s adventure book, A Balloon to the Moon , by Sechelt author Mackenzie Fairmaid-Shevloff, age 12.

Entertainment venues across B.C. got a shot in the arm with the announcement of relaxed rules on the size of organized gatherings, starting July 1.

Sunshine Coast ballet dancer Natalie Martin has won top honours at the Provincial Festival of Performing Arts BC.

Live, Saturday afternoon concerts are back this summer on the stage behind the Sechelt Library. The series of nine free concerts begins July 3 at noon.

Blame the moon for the mayhem described in a fresh new anthology of 20 short stories of mystery and suspense.

Coastal Voices, an adjudicated anthology of writing by Sunshine Coast elementary and secondary school students, has just published its 11th edition.

Alaya Conway is the latest Coast Academy of Dance student to earn her ISTD (International Society Teachers of Dancing) associate teaching certification in the Modern faculty. Conway successfully passed her teaching examination in May.

Two of the Sunshine Coast’s summer music festivals are back after their live versions were cancelled in 2020, but they’re back with some big compromises due to the lingering pandemic.

Tickets for this year’s Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts went on sale June 15 and festival artistic and executive director Jane Davidson said that, given the small number of seats currently available, many if not most events would se

Gibsons Public Art Gallery (GPAG) is marking National Indigenous History Month with a highly varied mixed-media exhibition by artist Dionne Paul (Ximiq), entitled Indigenous Land Based Practice. Paul was born on B.C.